This Thanksgiving was different than most. We traveled down to Cincinnati the Sunday before Thanksgiving to visit with them. Ashley came along as well and we brought our dogs for the first time to visit Braxton at his home. I was scheduled 2 months ago to work on an upgrade to production that day and my tasks were running late and I ended up driving myself later. As soon as I finished my migration tasks, I left and wasn’t 20 minutes on the road when the team I was helping out was reporting an error and asking for my help determining the cause. I ended spending most of my time at Stephanie’s and Marcus’ on my laptop trying to figure out their issue, which later turned out to be a missed task on their end which prevented their system from talking to our system.
We had beef that Nikki cooked up before we left and it was delicious. I then was able to enjoy a little time socializing with the family and watching the dogs play. Braxton has so much energy he wears our girls out! I was the first one to head out as we were still trying to figure the production issue and I had to get to bed as I worked at 6:00 am the following morning. Almost the entire time traveling down and back, I was on support calls. I had originally told the family the only day I couldn’t go was the 19th. But it was determined that was the only day they could do Thanksgiving and it was miserable for me as I was unable to participate much and made it easy for everyone on the team to point fingers at me at the time, even though the issue was unrelated to our team.
Jonny came home Tuesday night and he ran in the Annual Granville Turkey Trot race. There were almost 2689 runners in the race and Jonny got to see a lot of his old High School team mates. He took 2nd place behind Tyler Otterstead who was Jonny’s team mate in high school when he was a freshman and Tyler was a senior. Tyler runs for Columbia University now.
Jonny then went over to Alyssa’s for Thanksgiving dinner and Nikki and I were home alone for the rest of Thanksgiving day with the dogs.